Santa Rosa Island, November 2012

While we never saw ourselves as vacation-on-a-private-island types, that’s pretty much what we found ourselves doing over Thanksgiving weekend. We’d been trying to get to Santa Rosa Island for quite a while and were really thrilled to finally get to make the trip with our friends the Gwinns. We flew in from Camarillo and had great views of Anacapa and Santa Cruz before touching down on Rosa, unoccupied by anyone but one Park Service worker tracking foxes. We had a little of the island's infamous winds and mostly sunny weather on the miles of trails. Stacey, Carl, and Beth all proved to be excellent fox-spotters, and we were lucky enough to also see a bald eagle, local owls, the last horses on the island, and other interesting wildlife.